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' E. L. WILLIAMS.

TIE FOR WIRE STRUCTURES.

Patented Jan. 29, 1895.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOH A TTOHNE YS.

EUGENE L. WILLIAMS, OF JERSEYVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF TO JOHN S.WILLIAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

PATENT OFFICE.

ONE-HALF TlE FOR WIRE STRUCTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,403, dated January29, 1895.

Application filed May 10,1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE L. WILLIAMS, of Jerseyville, in the county ofJersey and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Ties for Wire Structures, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description,

My invention relates to ties for wire structures, and it has for itsobject to provide a simple device whereby the cross wires in wirestructures may be expeditiously, convenlently and firmly tied together,and to prov de a tie for this purpose which while strong wlll yet be oflight and not unsightly appearance.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar figures and letters of referonce indicate correspondingparts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the tie in staple form. Fig. 2 is aperspective view thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the staple. Fig.at is a front elevation of a portion of a wire structure, illustrating astaple converted into a tie. Fig. 5 is a section through the tie shownin Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a perspective viewof the .tie, viewed from theopposite side to that shown in Fig. 4:.

In carrying out the invention the staple A from which the tie is made isprovided upon opposite sides of its members at the extremities of thelatter with a substantially fiat face 10, the flattened or beveled faceupon one member facing the front, the other face of the opposite memberfacing to the rear, and the extremities of both members of the stapleare sharpened to a greater or less degree.

The staple is longitudinally curved, Whereby it presents one concavedface and an opposing convexed face, and the members of the staple arecarried out of alignment with each other, one of them being moredecidedly curved than the other, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby when viewedin side elevation the Serial No. 610,768- (No model.)

space between the flattened or beveled faces of the members will havesubstantially the contour of an inverted V. This difierence in thecurvature of the two members is produced in order that the staple mayfit snugly in the dies of a machine utilized for efiecting a tie; andfurthermore, the difference in the curvature of the two members of thestaple provides against onemember interfering with the other when thestaple is bent to a substantially ring-like form, which latter formitpartakes of when converted into a tie.

The wires B and O to be tied together are curved in opposite directionswhere they meet, as shown at 11 in Figs. 5 and 6; and the staple ispassed over, for example, the vertical wire B, and its members are madeto hang down across the horizontal wire 0. The staple is thenmanipulated through the medium of a suitable die in a manner to carryits ends in direction of one another, so that they will curve over thevertical wire B at a point below the horizontal wire. In this manner thetie will engage with the vertical wire B above and below the curvaturetherein on the same face of the wire, and will likewise embrace thehorizontal wire, bearing against its opposite face and encompassing acurvature produced therein.

As heretofore stated, owing to the difference in the curvature of themembers of the staple, the two members when brought together readilypass one over the other, their beveled or flattened faces being opposingfaces; and the attachment of the staple to the wire strands is completedby bending the extreme ends of the members of the staple in oppositedirections around the wire with which they maybe in contact, as is shownin Figs. 4, 5 and 6. By this means a durable, simple, economic andornamental tie is obtained.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination in a wire structure, of thecrossed wires, one of which is bowed to receive the other, with a tieconsisting in a staple engaging with its bend the said bowed wire withits legs crossing the other wire and extremities, the said members beinglikewise its points bent around the bowed wire from beveled at theirextremities upon opposite IO opposite sides, substantially as described.faces, substantially as and for the purpose 2. A staple adapted for useas a tie for wire specified. 5 structures, the said staple beinglongitudi- EUGENE L. WILLIAMS.

nally curved, one member having a greater Witnesses: curvature than theother, wherebythe mem- JOHN S. WILLIAMS,

bers are decidedly out of alignment at their 0. B. HAMILTON.

